Tag: Amsterdam

Amstel | 20210708

Amstel | 20210708 | 1-memo•com

Twilight last night on a bridge over the Amstel river near the Carré theatre in Amsterdam.
TAGS #Amstel #canal #Amsterdam #1Memo #michelvanderburg #Holland #theater #CARRE #summer #ship #boat #sunset #1minute

Applause Herman van Veen 76 | 20210707

Applause Herman van Veen 76 | 20210707 | 1-memo•com

Tonight , Wednesday July 7, 2021 finally the because of corona over a year postponed premiere Herman van Veen 76 in Koninklijk Theater Carré, Amsterdam.
TAGS #HermanVanVeen #Premiere #CARRE #1Memo #michelvanderburg #Holland #Amsterdam #theater #Amstel #canal #summer #applause #HermanVanVeen76

Meet Up Simon Gronowski, Karen & Richard Bloom | 20210511


Meet Up Simon Gronowski, Karen & Richard Bloom | 20210511 | michelvanderburg•com | Miracles•Media

Finally meeting Karen Lynne and Richard Bloom in the flesh visiting together the Jewish Cultural Quarter in Amsterdam May 10, 2014 – after years of working together ‘in the cloud’ only – just like today’s lockdown – from opposite sides of the ocean, on our film documentary « Transport XX to Auschwitz » .
Next day – May 11, 2014 – we all went to the Kazerne Dossin museum in Mechelen, Belgium – to meet up with Simon Gronowski – who I filmed on several occasions and locations telling his story since April 2011 …

… A continuing project for 10 years now – the Miracles Project. More on sites michelvanderburg•com and Miracles•Media .

TAGS #TransportXX #SimonGronowski #KazerneDossin #1Memo #MiraclesMedia #michelvanderburg #RichardBloom #KarenLynne #filmmaker #Holland #Belgium #Amsterdam #Mechelen #synagogue #JewishCulturaQuarter #holocaust #MiraclesProject #Auschwitz #escape #meeting #flyer #deportation #rescue #resistance

Stella’s Stars in Amsterdam 1932 | 20210307


Little star Liesje Poons, 9 years-old, wins the first prize at the masquerade ball (bal masqué) organised by Stella Fontaine in 1932 at the Bellevue theater in Amsterdam, Holland.
A show with costumed children doing acts like imitating an indian, magician, Russian, and dancer, dancing on dutch and german songs like, ‘In Holland staat een huis’, ‘Waarom zijn de bananen krom’, and ‘Dass ist die Liebe der Matrose’.
Dutch diva Stella Fontaine (Saartje Kanes, 1889-1966) – born in a Jewish Amsterdam family – was a cabaret artist, imitator, actress and singer.
Liesje (Elisabeth Cornelia Poons) born 1 July 1922 in a Jewish Amsterdam family of artists – active in the world of theater and music – became a singer in big bands , performing eg. July 1940 in the Amsterdam Carré theater, and May 1943 in Leiden (newspaper Leidsche Courant May 8, 1943).

Source: Polygoontoon (Producer | March 7, 1932) courtesy of Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (Open Images).
Stella’s Stars in Amsterdam 1932 | 20210307 | Michel van der Burg | michelvanderburg•com | Miracles•Media | CC BY 4.0

TAGS #children #jew #theater #1Memo #MiraclesMedia #michelvanderburg #Holland #Amsterdam #StellaFontaine #LiesjePoons #dance #show #holocaust #cinema #Bellevue #masquerade

Transport XX in Paradiso | The One Minutes Collection


Transport XX in Paradiso | The One Minutes Collection .
Amsterdam – Paradiso theater Nov. 28, 2010: The One Minutes – ‘Where history starts’ show…
Premiere screening of “Transport XX face to face” – selected in 2010 by The One Minutes and the dutch Museum of National History (innl) – at the ‘Where history starts’ event on Nov 28th, 2010 in Paradiso, Amsterdam (Netherlands). Host is Steven de Jong.
“Transport XX face to face” .
A video impression filmed February 28th, 2009 , of the confrontation of passers-by with the TRANSPORT XX installation in Brussels, that presented photographic portraits of 1,200 of the 1,631 Jewish prisoners deported with the 20th train convoy to Auschwitz in 1943.
More at my web site here – https://michelvanderburg.com/2013/04/19/transport-xx-to-auschwitz/ .

Credits
The Kazerne Dossin ( http://www.kazernedossin.eu/ ) digitalised the photo’s of the Dossin prisoners, that mostly are from the “National State Archives of Belgium. Ministry of Justice, Public Safety Office, Foreigner’s Police, individual files”
( http://www.arch.be/ )
Thank you: Marjan Verplancke and other co-workers of the Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen (Belgium) and project “Give them a Face” which aims to bring together as many portraits of deportees from the Dossin barracks in Mechelen as possible and give them back their face – and the memory alive.
This ‘one minute cut’ is a reworking of the video “TRANSPORT XX – installation Brussels” presented earlier in 2009.

Here a recording of that Transport XX one-minute film screening in Paradiso in Amsterdam.
First published Dec 2011 (20111214) online at my now obsolete YouTube channel iClip – that’s being archived, transferring content to my main channel youtube.com/michelvanderburg .
Remake produced June 7, 2020 for The One Minutes Collection.
This work is now part of The One Minutes Collection and will be preserved by The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, which manages audio-visual heritage.
File name : Michel van der Burg_Transport XX in Paradiso_2020_Netherlands .
Film : Transport XX in Paradiso (20200607) Michel van der Burg | michelvanderburg.com | miracles.media .

The City in the Sea ~ Amsterdam Preview

The City in the Sea ~ Amsterdam Preview
Amsterdam streetview reflection in the Albada Jelgersma Gallery window at the start of the projector, just minutes before the premiere opening 11 AM January 17th 2020, of Misha de Ridder’s film The City in the Sea (Ault V – 2017). A winter morning ocean view from the falaise coast at Ault near Normandie, France. Watch an original Ault V fragment at Misha de Ridder’s Vimeo channel : https://vimeo.com/208641460 . Film : 20200226 Michel van der Burg | 1-memo.com